It makes me think though, who are skateboarders now? There are definitely some uniting elements, but the community is more diverse than ever and as a result it’s far less homogenous.
That’s a good thing in some ways, but in others it means we’re pulling away from each other. Haven’t given it any deep thought but obviously this festival doesn’t represent skateboarding it represents one person’s vision of what skateboarding is.
As skateboarding has wider appeal it pulls in all sorts of types of kids, skateboarder is not a type of person it’s just a past time that a vast array of people have in common. Been like that for decades now.
Yeah not so sure I agree with that. There’s definitely still some commonality in what it means to be a skateboarder.
Growing up we had the ‘posh’ kids and the ‘rough’ kids skating in town. Proper Beano cliche. We were classed as the rough. The posh kids were a bit older and in the end a lot of them started to drop out of skating as life started to get in the way, the ones that stuck at it ended up merging into our group as we got older and caught up or over took over them in skating level. Turned into a great bunch of core people that just loved skating and hanging out. Then we started mixing with other local scenes (Teesside, ect) and it was just like one big community in the end. Shame that is probably dying out with the loss of Skater Owned Shops.
I agree it’s the case now, but not that it’s been like that for decades.
I was at the park the other weekend, and I was the only white man riding a skateboard. There’s no way that would have been the case even 10 years ago.
I’m not saying that a bond isn’t there, it always has been and always will be. Skateboarding creates a bond regardless of what type of person/ background you come from. On the whole it the potential to break down all barriers and makes us drop most of any hangups about other people if we had any. (most of the time)
All I was saying was that the more popular skateboarding has become, the bigger the reach and the bigger array of minds come together from different backgrounds.
I still don’t think skateboarder makes a “type” of person but it does create some sort of unity.
It is a language that brings people together. You can argue against this though with countless examples.
Skateboarding is literally at the peak of not being ‘rough’ or for ‘outcasts’
There’s never been so many women skating
Its in the Olympics ffs
They really stayed true to their name
Still coming to terms with the guy who survived the Indian plane crash yesterday. I’m reading his account of his survival but it simply does not compute.
I got such weird vibes reading the article about him.
Kind of celebratory look at this badass who survived a plane crash yet at the same time he just lost his brother and got surrounded by hundreds of dead people and now he’s having is photo in a hospital bed shaking hands with some politician and everyone in the world is looking at it.
What a mad week eh
Very well put. I thought the exact same.
The footage of him where he’s literally just survived a plane crash and probably realised he’s lost his brother and witnessed hundreds of other people die right in front of him whilst he is simultaneously ambushed by a swarm of people with their phones and whatnot is a truly 21st century experience that I fear no amount of therapy will heal.
Yer, they were interviewing his family in the UK.
What the fuck are they meant to say???
But the theorem states infinite monkeys in an infinite amount of time.
But the saying/ theory is ‘If an infinite number of monkeys were given an infinite amount of time with typewriters, they would eventually produce any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare.’
Not based on Earths population of monkeys!
It is not plausible that, even with improved typing speeds or an increase in chimpanzee populations
calculations based on the current global population of chimpanzees, which is roughly 200,000.
Then they go on about they how long Earth, the universe has (probably)… but it’s ‘given an infinite amount of time…’
the most widely accepted hypothesis for the end of the universe, which is the heat death theory.
All they have proved is that it’s not possible with a limited about of monkeys and a limited amount of time. That’s not the theory though!?
Edit: Was typing as jimo posted, haha.
Sorry your response is better 
Well , it’s all a bit moot really anyway. Humans are the monkeys, and one of said monkeys was called Shakespeare, and he did indeed write the Complete Works and it didn’t take an infinite number of monkeys, it took 94 billion monkeys, that being the approximate number of humans who had lived up until the year 1650 - it didn’t take an infinite amount of time, only 190,000 years.
We’re great apes actually 
Richard Dawkins says:
I don’t know who it was first pointed out that, given enough time, a monkey bashing away at a typewriter could produce all the works of Shakespeare. The operative phrase is, of course, given enough time. Let us limit the task facing our monkey somewhat. Suppose that he has to produce, not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence 'Methinks it is like a weasel,’ and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard, one with just the 26 (capital) letters, and a space bar. How long will he take to write this one little sentence?
Dawkins calculates that to accurately replicate this one sentence with random typewriter keys would take about a million million million million million years. This is more than a million million million times as long as the universe has so far existed.
